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Summary: Most people know the lasting legacy of Harry Belafonte, the entertainer. This film unearths his significant contribution to and his leadership in the civil rights movement in America and to social justice globally.
Runtime: 1 h 43 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 47,718
International: $ 17,592
Summary: The story of the life and career of the legendary rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles, from his humble beginnings in the South, where he went blind at age seven, to his meteoric rise to stardom during the 1950s and 1960s.
Runtime: 2 h 32 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 40,000,000
Domestic: $ 75,331,600
International: $ 48,639,776
Summary: Eliane adopts Camille, whose Vietnamese parents were friends. In 1930, a French navy officer is interested in Eliane (owns 60km2 plantation) and later in Camille. There's an uprising in Vietnam against French colonial power.
Runtime: 2 h 40 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: France
Language: French
Domestic: $ 5,603,158
Summary: Over the course of several years, two convicts form a friendship, seeking consolation and, eventually, redemption through basic compassion.
Runtime: 2 h 22 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 25,000,000
Domestic: $ 28,767,189
International: $ 117,527
Summary: Baltimore, Fall 1954: Schools implement the new integration law. Ben finds the "colored" girl in his class cute - upsetting his Jewish mom and granny. Ben talks to her while his brother looks for his WASP dream girl.
Runtime: 2 h 07 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 3,736,868
Summary: An abusive sexual relationship between a white spinster schoolteacher and an young black janitor in 1956 Kansas complicates her struggle to come to grips with her sexuality and emotions.
Runtime: 1 h 45 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Summary: Six guests are anonymously invited to a strange mansion for dinner, but after their host is killed, they must cooperate with the staff to identify the murderer as the bodies pile up.
Runtime: 1 h 34 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 15,000,000
Domestic: $ 14,643,997
Summary: The world's greatest pinup model and cult icon, Bettie Page, recounts the true story of how her free expression overcame government witch-hunts to help launch America's sexual revolution.
Runtime: 1 h 41 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 108,118
Summary: Two teenage girls share a unique bond; their parents, concerned that the friendship is too intense, separate them, and the girls take revenge.
Runtime: 1 h 39 min
MPAA: R

Countries: New Zealand, Germany
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 5,000,000
Domestic: $ 3,049,135
International: $ 815
Summary: Set in the early 1960s and during the era of Vatican II, a young woman in training to become a nun struggles with issues of faith, the changing church and sexuality.
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 2 h 03 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 580,346
Summary: Maria marries Hermann Braun in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. Alone, Maria puts to use her beauty and ambition in order to find prosperity during Germany's "economic miracle" of the 1950s.
Runtime: 2 h 00 min
MPAA: R

Country: West Germany
Language: German
Movie budget: $ 1,975,000
Domestic: $ 8,144
International: $ 3,711
Summary: In 1954, a group of Florida high-school guys try to help their buddy lose his virginity, which leads them to seek revenge on a sleazy nightclub owner and his redneck sheriff brother for harassing them.
Release Date: March 19, 1982
Genre: Comedy
Runtime: 1 h 34 min
MPAA: R

Countries: Canada, United States
Language: English
Franchise: Porky's
Movie budget: $ 2,500,000
Domestic: $ 111,289,673
Summary: Drama about the friendship between an Oxford-educated Southerner and a former black slave in turn-of-the-century Savannah.
Runtime: 1 h 41 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 5,000,000
Domestic: $ 37,240
Summary: A team of secret agents set out to track down the Nazi officer who masterminded the Holocaust.
Runtime: 2 h 02 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 24,000,000
Domestic: $ 17,612,099
Summary: After returning home from the Korean War, two young men search for love and fulfillment in middle America.
Runtime: 1 h 43 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 116,717
Summary: In the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.
Runtime: 2 h 01 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Countries: Italy, Algeria
Language: Italian
Movie budget: $ 800,000
Domestic: $ 879,794
International: $ 82,208
Summary: A documentary on DIY producer/director Roger Corman and his alternative approach to making movies in Hollywood.
Runtime: 1 h 35 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 7,000
Summary: As France is nearing the end of the first Indochina War, an open-minded teenage boy finds himself torn between a rebellious urge to discover love, and the ever-present, almost dominating affection of his beloved mother.
Release Date: October 17, 1971
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Runtime: 1 h 58 min
MPAA: R

Language: French
Domestic: $ 1,160,784
Summary: A vengeful Southern sheriff is out for blood after his wife is brutally killed by a pair of drifters.
Runtime: 1 h 29 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 225,000